[Hardware] Intel Arc GPUs Get Another Major Performance-Boosting Driver, Up To 63% Improvement Across Latest AAA Games

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Intel has released its latest performance-boosting driver for Arc graphics which delivers one hell of an improvement across various AAA games.

 

Intel Arc and Iris Graphics 31.0.101.4311 driver makes its way online with support for several games and performance upgrades with DirectX 12

The latest Game On Driver version 31.0.101.4311, which is still in beta, matches the releases of Dead Island 2, Minecraft Legends, and Boundary to offer day-one support. Additionally, the blue team prepared the driver for Total War: Warhammer III's newest downloadable content, Mirror of Madness. You can find the latest drivers here for download.As per recent Game On Drivers from Intel, the company wants to ensure gamers that the performance of its graphics cards, ray tracing capabilities, and PPD, or Performance Per Dollar, is superior to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GPU. But why is Intel pushing Total War: Warhammer III's DLC today? It turns out that Mirror of Madness was co-developed by the company.

 

Let's look at the numbers to see the performance gains by going with Intel instead of NVIDIA.

Looking at the Intel Arc A750's performance against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB resource model in the previous driver and the current driver, Intel increased the average frames per second in the newly updated Dead Space game, jumping up an additional 30 fps in 1080p Ultra modes and 20 fps in 1440p High modes. NVIDIA's performance outshined the previous driver, version 4257, but is almost even with the newest update, if not losing by a skinny margin of two to five frames.

 

Performance per USD shows that in the Intel-optimized Total War: Warhammer III DLC, Mirror of Madness, the company increases 62 to 72 percent compared to NVIDIA's GPU. Remember that the Intel Arc A750 GPU is currently $249, and NVIDIA's RTX 3060 12 GB is averaging $388. The same cards are compared to new releases Boundary, Dead Island 2, and Minecraft Legends, showing as low as 37% performance gains per dollar to up to 63% improvement per dollar.

 

Ray tracing is no different from Intel's slides. Older games like DIRT 5, Metro Exodus: Enhanced Edition, F1 22, and Deathloop show minor increases from Intel in their previous Game On driver to the recent driver from today. And, looking at the two system configurations, Intel did not fluff any drivers or extra components needed, allowing users full transparency to the two test systems.

 

Below is the new changelog for Intel Game On Driver version 31.0.101.4311, which can be downloaded here:

Intel Game On Driver support on Intel Arc A-series Graphics for: 

• Boundary
• Minecraft Legends
• Total War: Warhammer III – Mirror of Madness
• Dead Island 2

 

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